We built that, goddammit!Winterborn wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:02 amI agree as well. Everybody enters the world the same: wet, naked and screaming. What you do after that is up to you. Famous or great people were not that way before what ever made them great, they are considered great/powerful because they made a choice to build something (nations, companies, scientific discoveries, etc) and then became how we remember them today.Ibanez wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:05 am
You didn't answer my question. I didn't ask for philosophy or theories. I asked for your opinion.
Carlyle's main thrust is that great men were born that way. I disagree.
I didn't say leaders were born, not made. You want to honestly sit there and tell me that visionaries, strong and powerful men HAVEN'T built economic systems? Haven't changed the world we live in? Ordinary people can effect change, sure. But to your example of our legal and economic systems - those weren't put together by ordinary people. Alexander Hamilton was not your average lawyer. He was made...not born.
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Hell, that’s how I want to exit itWinterborn wrote:Everybody enters the world the same: wet, naked and screaming.Ibanez wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:05 am
You didn't answer my question. I didn't ask for philosophy or theories. I asked for your opinion.
Carlyle's main thrust is that great men were born that way. I disagree.
I didn't say leaders were born, not made. You want to honestly sit there and tell me that visionaries, strong and powerful men HAVEN'T built economic systems? Haven't changed the world we live in? Ordinary people can effect change, sure. But to your example of our legal and economic systems - those weren't put together by ordinary people. Alexander Hamilton was not your average lawyer. He was made...not born.
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Their environment, experiences, opportunities, failures, etc... are what make them great.Winterborn wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:02 amI agree as well. Everybody enters the world the same: wet, naked and screaming. What you do after that is up to you. Famous or great people were not that way before what ever made them great, they are considered great/powerful because they made a choice to build something (nations, companies, scientific discoveries, etc) and then became how we remember them today.Ibanez wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:05 am
You didn't answer my question. I didn't ask for philosophy or theories. I asked for your opinion.
Carlyle's main thrust is that great men were born that way. I disagree.
I didn't say leaders were born, not made. You want to honestly sit there and tell me that visionaries, strong and powerful men HAVEN'T built economic systems? Haven't changed the world we live in? Ordinary people can effect change, sure. But to your example of our legal and economic systems - those weren't put together by ordinary people. Alexander Hamilton was not your average lawyer. He was made...not born.
Interesting, that is also what makes people average, dull, evil, etc...
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I agree. Plenty of people born into wealth and power didn't amount to anything. Plenty of people born into poverty, middle class homes have amounted to greatness.Winterborn wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:02 amI agree as well. Everybody enters the world the same: wet, naked and screaming. What you do after that is up to you. Famous or great people were not that way before what ever made them great, they are considered great/powerful because they made a choice to build something (nations, companies, scientific discoveries, etc) and then became how we remember them today.Ibanez wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 6:05 am
You didn't answer my question. I didn't ask for philosophy or theories. I asked for your opinion.
Carlyle's main thrust is that great men were born that way. I disagree.
I didn't say leaders were born, not made. You want to honestly sit there and tell me that visionaries, strong and powerful men HAVEN'T built economic systems? Haven't changed the world we live in? Ordinary people can effect change, sure. But to your example of our legal and economic systems - those weren't put together by ordinary people. Alexander Hamilton was not your average lawyer. He was made...not born.
Their environment, experiences, opportunities, failures, etc... are what make them great.
Interesting, that is also what makes people average, dull, evil, etc...
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Ibanez wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:27 amI agree. Plenty of people born into wealth and power didn't amount to anything. Plenty of people born into poverty, middle class homes have amounted to greatness.Winterborn wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:02 am
I agree as well. Everybody enters the world the same: wet, naked and screaming. What you do after that is up to you. Famous or great people were not that way before what ever made them great, they are considered great/powerful because they made a choice to build something (nations, companies, scientific discoveries, etc) and then became how we remember them today.
Their environment, experiences, opportunities, failures, etc... are what make them great.
Interesting, that is also what makes people average, dull, evil, etc...
I know there is a common thread there if I could just put my finger on it.....
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“The best of all things is to learn. Money can be lost or stolen, health and strength may fail, but what you have committed to your mind is yours forever.” – Louis L’Amour
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Yup, I know Trip has thrown out that idea that he's wholly against the Great Man theory, but like most things with Trip, I doubt he's thought it through enough nor does he have a good enough grasp of history to see the holes in his argument. I don't think it has anything to do with being destined, but there are plenty of examples of individuals in history stepping up to shape an event or history, and in the absence of them doing it at that point in time then things would've turned out very differently.Ibanez wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:27 amI agree. Plenty of people born into wealth and power didn't amount to anything. Plenty of people born into poverty, middle class homes have amounted to greatness.Winterborn wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:02 am
I agree as well. Everybody enters the world the same: wet, naked and screaming. What you do after that is up to you. Famous or great people were not that way before what ever made them great, they are considered great/powerful because they made a choice to build something (nations, companies, scientific discoveries, etc) and then became how we remember them today.
Their environment, experiences, opportunities, failures, etc... are what make them great.
Interesting, that is also what makes people average, dull, evil, etc...
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Exactly. The Great Man Theory has an element of the divine in it. We aren't talking about that. It's a theory. Let's look at who has changed the world, made impacts (good and bad), been influential, whatever, and see where they come from. What opportunities did they have or take advantage of. There's nothing divine there.GannonFan wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 9:42 amYup, I know Trip has thrown out that idea that he's wholly against the Great Man theory, but like most things with Trip, I doubt he's thought it through enough nor does he have a good enough grasp of history to see the holes in his argument. I don't think it has anything to do with being destined, but there are plenty of examples of individuals in history stepping up to shape an event or history, and in the absence of them doing it at that point in time then things would've turned out very differently.Ibanez wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:27 am
I agree. Plenty of people born into wealth and power didn't amount to anything. Plenty of people born into poverty, middle class homes have amounted to greatness.
Their environment, experiences, opportunities, failures, etc... are what make them great.
Interesting, that is also what makes people average, dull, evil, etc...
I'm not a complete moron, Trip.
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I really have no idea how anyone is born great - and I believe way more people agree with that idea than not.
Society builds great people; without others, great men, ideas, inventions, etc. do not exist.
Society builds great people; without others, great men, ideas, inventions, etc. do not exist.
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No one is born great. Many with the qualities of greatness are never granted the opportunity.
But given the right disposition, intellect, upbringing attributes...etc AND the opportunity AND a little luck/chance, there are some better equipped than others.
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Yup, the important nuance. Gotta get past the surface.
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The Guns, Germs, and Steel crowd doesn’t approve of your statementkalm wrote:No one is born great. Many with the qualities of greatness are never granted the opportunity.
But given the right disposition, intellect, upbringing attributes...etc AND the opportunity AND a little luck/chance, there are some better equipped than others.
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So with those great people, built by society, who you do think is creating systems?
Hint: It's in my first post on this subject.
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I've tried to read that book. I've tried to listen to that book. I just can't get through it. Jared Diamond is a dullard.CID1990 wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 11:52 amThe Guns, Germs, and Steel crowd doesn’t approve of your statementkalm wrote:
No one is born great. Many with the qualities of greatness are never granted the opportunity.
But given the right disposition, intellect, upbringing attributes...etc AND the opportunity AND a little luck/chance, there are some better equipped than others.
Get with the program
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A book you may enjoy is 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is.
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The book presents recent research findings in different fields that suggest human populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought.
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In addition to being dull, he completely homogenizes humankind over its existence, sort of an acceptable treatise on “all lives matter”Ibanez wrote:I've tried to read that book. I've tried to listen to that book. I just can't get through it. Jared Diamond is a dullard.
A book you may enjoy is 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus is.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1491:_New ... e_ColumbusThe book presents recent research findings in different fields that suggest human populations in the Western Hemisphere—that is, the indigenous peoples of the Americas—were more numerous, had arrived earlier, were more sophisticated culturally, and controlled and shaped the natural landscape to a greater extent than scholars had previously thought.
I find his science questionable - like an effort to say that selection, environmental pressures, climate, competition, and proximity affect and shape all living things EXCEPT homo sapiens over the last 100,000 years
In fact, it isn’t questionable - its garbage
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I do what OL FU does, or what he used to do. I haven't communicated with him in a few years. Don't know what he's up to now.Ivytalk wrote: ↑Wed Sep 02, 2020 7:02 amExecutive Director of the Sons of the Confederacy?CitadelGrad wrote: ↑Tue Sep 01, 2020 9:35 pm
Not even close. Haven't sat in a cubicle in over 20 years. Haven't worked in a corporate setting for even longer. I rather like my job.
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Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler moving to avoid rioters targeting his home
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